Saints of the month of April
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Day 1
Saint Hugh of Grenoble, Bishop.
Saint Celsus, Bishop.
Saint Venancio, Bishop and martyr.
Saint Mary Egyptian, hermit.
John Bretton, Blessed, father of a family and martyr.
José Girotti, Blessed, priest, Dominican friar, theologian, Bible scholar, and martyr.
Day 2
San Francisco de Paula, hermit and Founder of the Order of Minimal Friars.
Saint Nicetus of Trier, priest, Bishop, writer and Abbot
Saint Abundio, Bishop.
Day 3
Saint Louis Scrosoppi, priest and Founder of the Sisters of Divine Providence Congregation.
Saint Richard of Wych, Bishop.
Day 4
Saint Benedict of Palermo, Franciscan friar and miracle worker.
Saint Plato, Abbot.
José Benito Dusmet, Blessed, Bishop of Catania.
day 5
San Vicente Ferrer, Dominican friar, great preacher, missionary and miracle worker, Founder of the First Orphanage in the world for boys and girls.
Saint Irene, virgin and martyr.
Saint Juliana, virgin.
day 6
Saint Peter of Verona, Dominican priest, preacher and martyr.
Saint Eutychius, Bishop.
Saint Gala, widow.
day 7
Saint John Baptist de la Salle, priest and Founder of the Christian Schools (LA SALLE Colleges)
Saint Peter Nguyên Van Luu, priest and martyr.
day 8
Saint Dionysus of Corinth, Bishop and martyr.
Saint Julia Billiart, religious and Foundress of the Sisters of Our Lady of Namur, to teach catechism to the children. She is the Patroness of Catechists.
day 9
Santa Casilda de Toledo, virgin and martyr.
Saint Liborius, Bishop.
day 10
Saint Ezekiel, Prophet.
Saint Terence and fellow martyrs.
Santa Magdalena de Canosa, marquise, nun and Foundress of the Canossian Daughters of Charity.
San Miguel de los Santos, religious of the Trinitarian Order. Mystic and writer.
Day 11
Saint Stanislaus of Kostka, young Jesuit, Patron of Youth, novices, and of Poland.
Saint Gemma Galgani, young, virgin, Passionist religious and mystic.
Saint Isaac of Spoleto, monk.
Elena Guerra, Blessed, religious virgin, Foundress of the Oblates of the Holy Spirit (Teaching).
day 12
San José Moscati, Physician, (doctor of the poor), Scientific Researcher, University Professor and pioneer in Biochemistry. Patron of Anatomy and Pathologies.
Saint David Uribe Velasco, Mexican priest, and martyr.
Saint Julius I, Pope.
day 13
Saint Hermenegildo, martyr.
Saint Martin I, Pope and martyr.
day 14
San Telmo (Pedro González), Dominican friar, preacher, Patron of Mariners and of Tuy.
Saint Lambert, Bishop.
Saint Liduvina, virgin, mystic and Patron Saint of the chronically ill.
day 15
Saint Damien of Molokai, priest and missionary of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts. Patron of Lepers, AIDS patients and contagious diseases.
San Abundio de Córdoba, confessor, Bishop and martyr.
San César de Bus, founding priest of the Fathers of the Christian Doctrine.
Saints Pausilipo and Teodoro, martyrs.
day 16
Santa Engracia de Zaragoza and fellow martyrs.
Saint Bernadette Soubirous, seer of the apparitions of the Virgin in Lourdes, religious.
Saint Benedict José Labre, hermit, beggar and religious.
Santo Toribio de Astorga, priest, Bishop of Astorga.
day 17
Saint Catherine Tekakwhita, virgin, Iroquois Catholic laywoman. Patron of the aborigines of Canada, of Nature and Ecology.
day 18
San Perfecto de Córdoba, monk and martyr.
Andrés Hibernón, Blessed, Franciscan religious, companion of S. Pascual Baylón.
María de la Encarnación, Blessed, mother of a family, widow and Discalced Carmelite nun.
day 19
Saint Expeditus, Roman soldier and martyr.
Saint Leo IX, Pope.
day 20
Saint Agnes of Montepulciano, Dominican nun and Abbess.
Saint Anicetus, Pope.
San Secundino, martyr.
day 21
Saint Anselm of Canterbury, Benedictine monk, Archbishop and Doctor of the Church.
Saint Conrad of Parzham, Capuchin religious.
San Román Adamé Rosales, Mexican priest and martyr in the Cristero War.
day 22
Santos Cayo and Sotero, Popes and martyrs.
Saint Leonidas, martyr.
day 23
Saint George, soldier martyr and Patron of Scouts.
Saint Adalbert, Bishop of Prague and martyr.
day 24
Saint Fidel of Sigmaringa, Capuchin friar, preacher, missionary and martyr.
Saints María de Cleofás and María Salome, New Testament.
Saint Benedict Menni, priest, Founder of the Sisters Hospitallers of Sgdo. Jesus’s Heart.
Saint Mary Euphrasia Pelletier, religious virgin, Foundress of the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd.
day 25
Saint Mark, Evangelist.
San Pedro de Betancour, Franciscan religious, first native Canarian saint, missionary and Founder.
day 26
Saint Isidore of Seville. Archbishop, writer and historian and Doctor of the Church.
Saint Cletus, Pope.
day 27
Our Lady the Virgin of Montserrat. Patron Saint of Catalonia (Spain).
San Rafael Arnaiz Barón, architect, and Trappist monk and mystic.
Santa Zita, virgin, servant and Patron Saint of Domestic Staff.
San Pedro Armengol, friar of the Order of Mercy and martyr.
Saint Guadalupe García Zavala, (Mother Lupita) Mexican nun and Co-founder of the Religious Servants of Saint Margaret Mary and the Poor.
day 28
Saint Louis Maria Grignion de Montfort, missionary priest, theologian and writer, Doctor of the Church.
Saint Prudentius of Tarazona, Bishop.
Saint Peter Chanel, priest, missionary, martyr and Patron of Oceania.
Santa Juana Beretta Molla, pediatrician and mother of the family. Patron saint of uterine and/or breast cancer patients. Patron saint of pregnant women.
day 29
Saint Catherine of Siena, Virgin, Doctor of the Church, Patroness of Italy and Co-patron of Europe.
Day 30
San José Benito Cottolengo, priest, Founder of the Little House of Divine Providence, a free reception center for people with mental and/or physical disabilities.
Saint Pius V, Pope.
San Amador and fellow martyrs.
Santa Mª. of the Guyart Incarnation, Ursuline nun.
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